Integrated blames loss on recruitment

Healthcare Market News (Company News) July 2003Integrated Dental Holdings has placed the blame for a lacklustre set of interim results squarely on the shoulders...

Cygnet gets green light in Enfield

Healthcare Market News (Mental Health) July 2003Cygnet Healthcare Ltd has won planning consent to build a 51-bed low-secure and intensive care hospital in Palmers...

Simplyhealth business consultant

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) July 2003Hertford-based private medical insurer (PMI) Simplyhealth has appointed Simon Letchford as business development consultant, a new position which has...

Clampdown on private overseas nurses?

Healthcare Market News (News) July 2003Ethical guidelines designed to prevent the NHS from poaching nurses from developing countries should be extended to the independent...

Hostile bid for Nestor

Healthcare Market News (Company News) July 2003Temporary care staff provider Nestor Healthcare Group plc has received an unsolicited approach regarding a possible offer for...

Mental health services fail to offer choice

Healthcare Market News (Mental Health) July 2003Mental health services are failing users, with patients not being offered an adequate choice of treatment options, according...

Westfield board appointment

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) July 2003Mutual health insurance provider Westfield Health Scheme has announced that Jill Davies has been appointed executive director to the...

Cosmetic surgery faces tougher scrutiny

Healthcare Market News (News) July 2003The government has called for a thorough review of the cosmetic surgery sector after research has revealed many smaller...

Veiled profits warning from Reed

Healthcare Market News (Company News) July 2003Just weeks after assuring investors that boardroom unrest was not having an adverse effect on trading and profits,...

‘Creeping charges’ blighting NHS

Healthcare Market News (News) July 2003'Creeping charges' for NHS care are hitting the most vulnerable members of society, a consumer organisation has warned.Charges such...